Who Am I If I’m Not Achieving?

Perfection feeds on inauthentic, society-driven, external validation𑁋the why and how of being a recovering perfectionist.

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For the past few years, I’ve been a recovering perfectionist. Letting go of perfect means shedding my reliance on external validation and truly getting comfortable in my own skin.

Starting in childhood, my day lived and died by words of affirmation. The easy…